Rhonda L. Berger, 34, of Upton, tried to make her marriage work. Last November, the former national-level gymnast and dancer left her native Florida with her three children, twins Michael and Matthew, now 7, and Rose, 4, to move back with her husband of eight years, Adam, who had returned to Massachusetts for a job.

SPRINGFIELD - A housing court judge Thursday put a halt to the demolition of a condemned Deerfield property that housed farm workers and their children until those families are properly notified of their rights in a case brought by the state against the Chang Family Trust, which runs a bean sprout farm in nearby Whately.